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A digital skills gap signals a rebound in tech services spending SHARE Recent survey data from Enterprise Technology Research shows that enterprise tech spending is tracking with projected U.S. GDP growth at 6% to 7% this year. And many markers continue to point the way to a strong recovery including hiring trends and the loosening of frozen information technology project budgets. However, skills shortages are blocking progress at some companies, which bodes well for a...

SHARE Breaking Analysis is a weekly editorial program combining knowledge from SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE with spending data from Enterprise Technology Research. Branded as  theCUBE Insights, Powered by ETR, the program is our opportunity to share independent, unfiltered editorial with SiliconANGLE, theCUBE and Wikibon communities. The program and conclusions we produce are data-driven, tapping ETR’s proprietary spending data set. Following is the complete collection to date, crystallizing ...

SHARE UiPath Inc. is going public this coming week to become the next hot software company to stage an initial public offering. But it has had a long, strange trip to its IPO. How so? Well, the robotic process automation company, whose software mimics human interactions using software scripts or robots that execute human tasks in discrete steps, was started way back in 2005. But its culture is akin to a frenetic startup. The firm shunned conventions and, instead of focusing on a narrow geograph...

Moore’s Law is dead, right? Think again. Although the historical annual improvement of about 40% in central processing unit performance is slowing, the combination of CPUs packaged with alternative processors is improving at a rate of more than 100% per annum. These unprecedented and massive improvements in processing power combined with data and artificial intelligence will completely change the way we think about designing hardware, writing software and applying technology to businesses. Ev...

NFTs, crypto madness and blockchain in the enterprise SHARE When a piece of digital art sells for $69. million, more than has ever been paid for works by Paul Gauguin or Salvador Dali, and makes its creator the third most expensive living artist in the world, one can’t help but take notice and ask: “What is going on?” The latest craze around nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, may feel a bit bubblicious, but it’s yet another sign that the digital age is now fully upon...

CLOUD Satya Nadella lays out a vision at Ignite 2021: What it means for Microsoft and the cloud SHARE Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Satya Nadella sees a different future for cloud computing over the coming decade. In his Microsoft Ignite keynote this past week, Nadella (pictured) laid out the five attributes that will define the cloud in the next 10 years. His vision is a cloud platform that is decentralized, ubiquitous, intelligent, sensing and tr...

Dave Vellante's Breaking Analysis: The complete collection - SiliconANGLE

SHARE Software-as-a-service companies have been some of the strongest performers during this COVID-19 era. They finally took a bit of a breather this month but remain generally well-positioned for the next several years with their predictable revenue models and cloud-based offerings. Meanwhile, the demise of on-premises data center legacy players from COVID shock seems to have been overstated, in part because of the return of the laptop and, in the case of Oracle Corp., what some see as a cloud...

Dave Vellante's Breaking Analysis: The complete collection - SiliconANGLE

SHARE Top security pros say the SolarWinds hack and the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated a change in their cybersecurity spending patterns. Not only must chief information security officers secure an increasingly distributed workforce, but they now must also be wary of software code coming from reputable vendors, including the very patches designed to protect them against cyberattacks. Organizations are increasingly prioritizing zero-trust approaches, including simplified identity access mana...